Rethinking Swaziland's HIV/AIDS epidemic: The need for urgent interventions

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Naysmith, Scott ^a   Whiteside, Alan ^a   Whalley, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disease burden; Gender inequality; HIV AIDS; Humanitarian emergency; International aid; Southern Africa; Swaziland

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949119033     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403789     Document Type: Article

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